jadis

They really, really don't




Go scream about how anyone refusing to take the vaccine and to triple mask should be culled

The Batlord

If that were true then I suspect he'd actually do something about it.

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Tristan_Geoff

nah cause the rich just wanna kill us all and get to the higher ground when the ice caps melt

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Lisnaholic

Yes, that slip of the tongue sounds a bit funny. As well as being repetitive, he was clearly getting ahead of himself and tripping over his words. But look at it textually, and only one "friend" is seriously mis-placed:-

BIDEN: “My long friend time friend, she's a friend. She's been my friend in and out of public life.”

Let the person who has never repeated himself cast the first stone; is that really you, jadis?

I don't plan to do any research into Trump's linguistic stumbles, but from memory, there was one about "routers". The difference, to me, is that Trump is stumbling to express ideas that are nonsense to begin with. At least with Biden, blunders aside, you are left with a proper idea - so I have more patience with him. Unravelling what Trump means is often an irritating, futile exercise; you discover that he is driveling on about toilets not flushing properly, windmills giving you cancer, that he is failing to understand the difference between weather and climate or suggesting that you shine a torch up your bottom to cure covid.

You sound a little sceptical, Batlord, but I hope he will deliver some real changes. He has at least started by making all the right noises and rejoining the Paris Accords. This document gives us some hope, and the page is headed "The White House" and therefore must be true:-

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-...me-and-abroad/

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Lisnaholic

I suspect that's going to happen someday regardless of climate policies. It may already just be a question of proportions: how much dry land, how rich do you need to be to get some, how many will be cast into the wet outer darkness?

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jadis

Acknowledging the obvious can be difficult sometimes but nevertheless...





I like Biden, I think he's done far more in the way of standing up to America's unelected corporate power elites than his predecessor, whose "populist" pitch about fighting "the deep state" was so obviously fake.

Only yesterday he ordered to declassify the 9/11 files, including those that might show there was a coverup by the FBI of the links between the hijackers and the Saudi royal family.

Failing to stay awake during the ramblings of the hideous Israeli prime minister? "King $hit", as the kids say. But we don't have to pretend his brain is what it was during the 2012 debate with Paul Ryan.

Lisnaholic

"Brain melt"
Yes, he did seriously lose the plot there, it's true!
Because of the topic, I started noticing the two commentators in that clip, and they also had the occasional pauses to find the necessary words. The guy got over it by referring to everything as "sh*t" and every person as "motherf*cker". The girl did better, imo, though I heard, "..It's very I mean It's painful..." and "..but sometimes you know but sometimes..." It's very difficult to talk without that kind of stuff happening.

I liked the point they made though, that "Grandad" Biden was still the voters' choice.

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Trollheart

If you're one of those people who thinks it's okay to go around unmasked, unvaccinated and putting not just yourself but others in danger, I wouldn't waste my breath on you. Grow up.

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jadis

I have no doubt that whatever point I may be getting at would never break through to someone as dense, panicked and paranoid as yourself, but I'll try nonetheless.


One of the many dangers about the horrible situation we're all in right now is the compulsion to reduce fellow human beings to vectors of disease, to walking biological threats. One doesn't have to draw hyperbolic and misplaced analogies to 20th century atrocities to see that excluding group X from common humanity based on factor n is not a good idea, and its implications for groups Y and Z could be very dangerous.


Everything you say and the way you say it conjures up the stereotype of a self-righteous philistine who would gladly put Roma people behind barbed wire because they're "unhygienic" or something like that. You obsessively hate Trump because you are a version of Trump.

Frownland

Ja TH, judging someone for their actions is basically the same as racialized cordon sanitaire.

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